Bill Plympton Quotes
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
